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Se tu sei stato a udire canzoni vane, o soni : note sull'etica musicale nella prima età moderna
No full textNote di musica e note di censura
No full textIs it possible to censure music? This question may sound rather extravagant, and this is perhaps why music is often overlooked in studies on ecclesiastical censorship in the early modern period, for it would seem that its very essence is incompatible with any form of control. There is no simple answer to the initial question. The conciliar decrees, the Indexes of prohibited books, the treatises on music and the manuals on demonology reveal a wide range of grounds for censorship. Some of these went beyond written or spoken words and could be applied to music. Musical censorship did not only involve zealous inquisitors battling with some licentious musician, but also the language of worship and the circulation of prohibited knowledge, which included dangers in the form of sounds that went beyond erotic seduction
Regulators, L-functions and rational points
No full textThis article is a revised version of the text of the plenary conference I gave at the XIX Congress of "Unione Matematica Italiana", held in Bologna in September 2011. It discusses the arithmetic significance of the values at integers of the complex and p-adic L-functions associated to Dirichlet characters and to elliptic curves
Laurence Wuidar, L'angelo e il girasole : conversazioni filosofico-musicali, Bologna, Edizioni Studio Domenicano, 2010
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Se tu sei stato a udire canzoni vane, o soni : note sull’etica musicale nella prima età moderna
No full textIn ancient Greek musical theory, harmony was seen as being endowed with a natural virtue capable of altering the rational faculties of the listener's soul, to the extent of depriving that person of his freedom. The many ethical implications of this classical axiom featured in early modern theological debates. By exploring a series of sources which have hitherto been overlooked in historiography, this contribution seeks to provide some examples of original theoretical elaborations and pastoral strategies formulated in the course of these debates
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